Film Music News has sent out emails to all its members to inform that there will be a Jerry Goldsmith Public Memorial Service tomorrow, Friday July 23, at 2pm at Hillside Memorial Park in Los Angeles. The memorial service is open to the public. Please follow this link for full location details and Film Music‘s official statement:

The Goldsmith Memorial Service will be held at:

Hillside Memorial Park
6001 Centinela Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90045

Tel (310) 641-0707

Directions:
From either direction on the 405 Freeway exit at the Howard Hughes Parkway.
Follow the exit road to Sepulveda Boulevard and turn right.
The second signal light is Centinela. Turn right.
Drive under the freeway and Hillside Memorial Park will be on the left.

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Award-winning film and TV composer Jerry Goldsmith died July 21 of cancer in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 75.

Goldsmith’s long and distinguished career included a best original score Academy Award for the 1976 movie The Omen. He also received several Academy Award nominations for best original score, including Mulan, L.A. Confidential, Hoosiers, Poltergeist, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Chinatown, Patton and Planet of the Apes.

Additionally, he won four Emmy awards for his work on the television series Star Trek: Voyager, the 1981 miniseries Masada, the 1975 TV-movie Babe and the 1974 miniseries QB VII.

Born in Los Angeles on February 10, 1929, Goldsmith began his composing career in the late 1940s in radio and television. In the 1950s, he wrote music for such radio shows as CBS Radio Workshop and Romance. He went on to write music for numerous TV series, including The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke and Dr. Kildare.

Goldsmith also composed the fanfare for the Academy Awards television broadcast. His most recent score was for the 2003 movie Looney Tunes: Back In Action.

He is survived by his wife, Carol, and five children.

Source: Film Music News.